The police have confirmed that the body found in the Isar at Pliening is the missing 14-year-old.
His friends remember him.
Munich - A 14-year-old boy has been missing in Munich after jumping into the Isar for over two weeks.
The police confirmed in a press release yesterday, Monday (August 16), that the boy is dead.
He wanted to get his soccer ball out of the water: Water roller caught boys and drove them away
On Friday, August 6th, while playing ball with his friends, the youngster jumped into the river at the Marienklausenbrücke to get his soccer ball out and was caught and carried away by a water roller *.
Two of his friends, who were also in the water, were barely able to escape the river.
However, the 14-year-old was pulled into the roller, which has already led to several accidents.
In 2017, a 24-year-old drowned there and a 5-year-old girl almost died in July had it not been for three men to save her.
Missing boy (14) found dead: Forensic medicine has identified him beyond doubt
The boy was finally found floating lifeless in the water near Pliening (Ebersberg district) on August 13th.
Even before that, there was speculation about the death of the youth after the body was found in the Isar.
According to the police, forensic medicine has "unequivocally identified him as the missing youth" through an examination.
After the accident at Marienklausenbrücke in Munich: Friends have erected a memorial for a dead boy
After the accident, his friends have now erected a memorial on the Marienklausenbrücke. You remember the boy as a particularly cheerful and sporty person. On the skateboard, which they hung from a branch decorated with ribbons, they wrote the date of birth and the day of his death - 23 August 2006 to 6 August 2021. His 15th birthday would have been in a few days, but the boy wasn't allowed to experience more.
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